Arashi Kakumatsuro

Arashi Kakumatsuro was a Japanese actor born in Matsusaka Village, Iitaka District, Mie Prefecture. His father is the kabuki actor Arashi Kojuro. Around 1897, when he was 19 years old, he became a disciple of Arashi Rikaku IV, an actor of Kansai Kabuki. In 1913, around the age of 35, he began appearing…

Higashiyama Chieko

Higashiyama Chieko was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1936 to 1967. Graduating from the girl's school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress and began…

Akutagawa Ryunosuke

A Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He committed suicide at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.

Miguel Rodriguez

Miguel Benedict Rodriguez was an actor and model from Las Piñas, Metro Manila, Philippines. He got his start in show business when he was discovered by the highly-regarded activist and influential filmmaker Lino Brocka who cast him in a Close Up commercial in 1981. Often referred to as the "Filipino…

Kanda Sayaka

Kanda Sayaka was a Japanese actress and former Japanese pop singer. She debuted under Sony Music Japan, however in 2011, and for the release of her second album, she moved to Pony Canyon. Daughter of the J-Pop idol Matsuda Seiko and the actor Kanda Masaki, she made her unofficial debut when she was…

Godfrey Gao

Godfrey Gao was a Taiwanese actor and model, born in Taipei, Taiwan. He immigrated to Canada during elementary school and was raised and educated in Vancouver. Gao came from a notable family: his great-grandfather, Tsao Chen Sheng, served as the chief translator for the Shanghai Municipal Council in…

Jesse Lingard

Jesse Ellis Lingard is a British footballer, playing as a midfielder. He joined the Manchester United Academy at the age of 7 and won the 2010–11 FA Youth Cup before even signing his first professional contract. In November 2012, he was sent on loan to Leicester City, where he made his pro debut and…

Jake Macapagal

Jake Macapagal was born in Manila, Philippines. He moved to Germany at the age of 27 and resided in Europe for 10 years. He is an Acting Coach and have been busy training actors since 2009. He proceeded to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 2010 for a certificate. He starred…

Furukawa Yuki

Furukawa Yuki is a Japanese actor who grew up abroad. At the age of seven, he and his family moved from Japan to Canada. Then they relocated to the United States when Furukawa was sixteen. He completed high school there before returning to Japan to study Engineering at Keio University. Furukawa gained…

Hosokawa Fumie

Fumie Hosokawa is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. She is often referred to as the “original” kyonyu (huge breasts) idol. Hosokawa was born in Tanabu, Aomori prefecture and lived in Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture until the age of four. She then moved to Hawaii for a year to attend school there.…

Before I Grow Up

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In this coming-of-age story, a high school boy tries to defend the girl he likes from the rumors going around town about her family. (Source: K-Crush)

Kung Fu Stuntmen

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A new documentary film revisits the golden age of kung fu stuntmen and action directors in Hong Kong during the 1960s-'80s, exploring their pain and struggles. The documentary is a tribute to kung fu stuntmen. “They…

Remembering Fan Chan: Dream a Dream Again

Actors and team members share their behind-the-scenes memories of making the coming-of-age movie that became a classic of Thai cinema. (Source: Netflix)

Teruo Ishii Movie Soul

A documentary about director Teruo Ishii, a genius who died in 2005 at the age of 81, leaving behind numerous masterpieces such as blockbuster works such as the "Abashiri Bangaichi" .

Coming Out Travel

My mother is worried that I’m still unmarried at the age of 30. She says, in a trip with me, that she is not happy at all about me living with another girl, without any intention of finding a boyfriend. I decide…

The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed

Sota Masuda won the band contest at the age of 17, and his debut with his band was a matter of time. However, the band broke up with their members going to college, and he headed to Tokyo to succeed in music. Eventually,…

Two Journalists: One Century

Documentary about the lives of Japan's first female photojournalist and a legendary newspaper reporter who still are on the job at age 101. Photojournalist Sasamoto Tsuneko and newspaper reporter Muno Takeji are over…

Hurry Go Round

Japanese musician Hide passed away on May 2 1998 at age 33. Twenty years later, actor Yamoto Yuma visits Hide’s grave. What kind of life did Hide lead and how did he die? Yamoto traces the last three months of his…

Butterfly

"Living young was fine, but the bond gets stronger as we age." An elderly couple has been living together for the past 78 years in Danchun Village in Hwage, Kyungnam. The old man does everything from cooking to laundry…

The Burrows

In the town where the filmmaker was born, he and his family are following an age-old tradition by building a tomb for his grandparents. This carefully composed portrait of a village, interspersed with scenes of people…